Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:48:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:48:07 -0400 Received: from mailhub.fokus.gmd.de ([193.174.154.14]:32488 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.gmd.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:48:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 21:49:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Joerg Schilling Message-Id: <200207121949.g6CJnNOj018428@burner.fokus.gmd.de> To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, schilling@fokus.gmd.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1284 Lines: 36 >From alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Fri Jul 12 21:43:27 2002 >On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 20:37, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> >o Many ide floppy devices can do ATAPI but get it horribly wrong >> >> Describe the problems. >Go read the source code, do your own homework Fine! You repeat that you have no argument that stands a check. So let us take it as prooven that there is no problem with resent (< 10 year old) drives. >> >> Sorry, this has nothing to do with dev_t >It has a huge amount to do with dev_t. It should be immediately obvious >why dev_t is a critical factor in getting that interface working in a >sane fashion. If a sane driver interface depends on dev_t being 32 bits, then there would be a lot og junk in the Linux kernel :-( J?rg EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.gmd.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/